The Full Suite
11 modules, one manuscript.
Everything Calamus does, laid out in the order a book moves through it: catching the idea, drafting it, building the world it stands on, compiling the file a retailer accepts, and sharing lines from it once the book is out. Every module has its own page.
Write
6Getting the book down, from the first thought to a draft that holds its shape.
Ideas
Catch a thought on your phone wherever you are and find it on your desk, filed under a category and assigned to a book if you chose one.
See IdeasEditor
Typewriter, Focus and Composition Modes, on paper and a background you choose.
See EditorBinder
Chapters, scenes and front matter in one tree you reorder by dragging.
See BinderOutliner
The whole book as beats and synopses, in reading order.
See OutlinerCorkboard
Every scene as a card, so you can try an order before you write it.
See CorkboardSnapshots
Every version of every scene, saved as you work and restored one scene at a time.
See Snapshots
Atlas
3What the book stands on: the world behind it, the look of it, and the reading that informs it.
World Building
14 kinds of Codex entry, each with its own fields, tagged straight from your prose and consistent across a whole series.
See World BuildingMoodboard
Reference images and color palettes for a book or a single scene, one panel from the page.
See MoodboardResearch
Links, facts and passages filed against the scene or Codex entry they support.
See Research
Publish
2The finished file, and the readers who need to hear about it.
- Ideas
- Editor
- Binder
- Outliner
- Corkboard
- Snapshots
- World Building
- Moodboard
- Research
- Compile
- Social
- Writing Log
- Library
- Pen Names
One project, not 11
They are views of the same book, not separate apps.
Reorder a chapter in the Binder and the Outliner and Corkboard already agree with it. Tag a name in the Editor and it is linked in the Codex. Compile reads the manuscript you drafted rather than an export of it. Nothing here has to be kept in step by hand, because there is only ever one copy of the book to keep.
Works on platforms
Stay in sync on every device, no matter where you are.
The iPhone Calamus app lets you capture ideas and post quotes and content from your book on the fly. The native Mac and iPad apps keep working with no connection at all, so a dropped signal on a plane or spotty wifi at a cafe is never devastating; everything syncs back together the moment you're online again. The browser stays just as fast for a quick session on any computer, wherever there's a connection.
Browser
Mac
iPad
iPhone
Ideas, Writing, Creative Vibing, Compiling, and Marketing: One Tool.
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